Ship ahoy!

Maybe you've heared about it already, The Pirate Bay. But what makes this little swedish site, so nasty that even the CEO's of Apple and Sega are having nightmares of this site?

TPB was started in 2004 as a search engine for torrents. First something about torrents; BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. That means in non-geek language: in a .torrent file are servers listed where the torrent program can find the original, what the program than actually copies to your own computer. So everyone can publish his Leopard update DVD, his I'm legend DVD or games as a torrent. Now you maybe can guess what TPB makes so nasty; if everyone uses a torrent, nobody will buy the Leopard disc ($129.00), a DVD ($50.00) or a game ($75.00).

Of course these companies tried to stop TPB with lots of legal threats against TPB (They have listed them on this page, you should take a look if need to laugh [xD]). But because of two things all threats are fauled. First of all: 75% of al firms that have started a legal threat, have their copyright proctection shit in the USA, and the USA is not Sweden. They have a total different copyrights system there. So the big companies are having nothing to their U.S. copyrights. Second point: they can not prove that TPB is hosting this torrents, they're only the search engine. And a search engine can't say what people should publish. Are you getting it?

Why not just the whole world use this site? I don't know. I just say to Apple, Sega and the others: f*ck up with your expensive software. I just say: skepp ohoj! (that's swedish)